Less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, another tumultuous event happened. Although the cosmos was born equal parts matter and antimatter, which destroy each other upon contact, matter somehow began to dominate.
TRACKING DECAY The DZero experiment analyzes the decay of particles called B mesons that are created during high-energy collisions between protons and antiprotons at the Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator.
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